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it's not funny karzai is running for president this time. so we could do that to every lecture that will be repeated is the most important election billboard is because the results of this addiction to go to amend the olympics and can put it in the air and in general the politics of the most. no vip for our conference the goal is to give natural has been committed to an election the most important thing is that these elections which he thinks should be. art direction was enough grounded enough grunt one the solution to the problems of concrete. it should be bought and it has been achieved. this time because fox the student accused him of the djibouti awful stuff but we sure like to highlight what does that the board on the withdrawal of troops on tv should not be over a computer because it is a vacuum created either politically or militarily the bulls will see the child has to do custom tools forces which are probably not the speaker does would influence the local mobile situation will get to the us france should keep a residual of the time
it's not funny karzai is running for president this time. so we could do that to every lecture that will be repeated is the most important election billboard is because the results of this addiction to go to amend the olympics and can put it in the air and in general the politics of the most. no vip for our conference the goal is to give natural has been committed to an election the most important thing is that these elections which he thinks should be. art direction was enough grounded enough...
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. >> hamid karzai is said to be the first man in the entry's history to voluntarily cede power based on a constitution and the will of the people. >> that does not necessarily mean the ballot will run smoothly. >> afghan election workers have begun distributing ballot boxes and say everything is on schedule for saturday's presidential vote. some 20,000 polling stations have been set up. once they arrive by truck, materials will be delivered by donkeys. taliban militants are threatening attacks on election day. kabul and other cities are on lockdown. some voters have not made up their minds whether to show up at polling stations. >> if there are threats of violence and people are afraid, then nobody will vote. i myself won't turn out to vote under those conditions. but security is very tight, so we will have to wait and see. >> president hamid karzai, who has led the country since the us-led invasion to topple the taliban in 2001, is constitutionally barred from a third term. one of those thought likely to succeed him, foreign minister abdullah abdullah, believes it will go well. >> i
. >> hamid karzai is said to be the first man in the entry's history to voluntarily cede power based on a constitution and the will of the people. >> that does not necessarily mean the ballot will run smoothly. >> afghan election workers have begun distributing ballot boxes and say everything is on schedule for saturday's presidential vote. some 20,000 polling stations have been set up. once they arrive by truck, materials will be delivered by donkeys. taliban militants are...
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president karzai has left the country since the us led invasion to topple the taliban in two thousand and one is constitutionally bought from it that in one of the frontrunners to succeed in full the foreign minister abdullah abdullah says he's confident the rubble can be avoided it is expected. that too. for some who decide the winner. indeed in the elections the truth and to be overcome. often their differences would be acceptable to get deep enough or prawns. i wasted said this down to any candidate will win the majority in the firstos afghanistan's next the debt will have to decide whether to engage the time about in peace talks. on whether to sign a security pact with the united states. ok some hands on science for you now they call them i'd take our eyes in the sky. in about one in the off hours from now a new era in cultivation will be launched at a rugby during the first in the string of satellites will blast off from french guiana in south america know it's a joy to your project with the european space agency worth about four between your works program could prove invaluable.
president karzai has left the country since the us led invasion to topple the taliban in two thousand and one is constitutionally bought from it that in one of the frontrunners to succeed in full the foreign minister abdullah abdullah says he's confident the rubble can be avoided it is expected. that too. for some who decide the winner. indeed in the elections the truth and to be overcome. often their differences would be acceptable to get deep enough or prawns. i wasted said this down to any...
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i'm talking with them is we can't get to hung up on the defects of maliki and iraq or the defects of karzai and the afghan politics. we do have to keep a larger perspective that those who have died did not die in vain. you know go back. if i had said to anybody in 2001 that 10 years later there wouldn't have been another attack on the united states most of you listening would have said no you are wrong, it's going to. it's because we did take the war offensive way to al qaeda and sure a lot of mistakes were made but if you stand back from the particulars we are safer today than we were in 2001 and we are well on our way to crushing al qaeda and crushing the jihadist. so i think overall that we have done a successful job with their military. >> when we analyzed arab spring we had an optimistic view. these are the rebels. the changes happening. it looks like eastern europe. it is not but then you have the view that the entire arab spring is only about the islamist and nothing could be done in the middle east. in my book i make the case that it is either one or the other. it is both at the sam
i'm talking with them is we can't get to hung up on the defects of maliki and iraq or the defects of karzai and the afghan politics. we do have to keep a larger perspective that those who have died did not die in vain. you know go back. if i had said to anybody in 2001 that 10 years later there wouldn't have been another attack on the united states most of you listening would have said no you are wrong, it's going to. it's because we did take the war offensive way to al qaeda and sure a lot of...
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. >>> on saturday, afghan voters will choose a successor to that made karzai. voting will be particularly difficult in helmand province. up to a third of polling stations might be closed because of insecurity. british troops have now withdrawn from rural areas and to just a handful of bases ahead of the end of combat operations in december. david loin presents. >> tractors rip up poppies in an attempt to cut the raw material for heroin. poppy production went up to a record high while british troops were here. almost all of the 448 british troops who died in afghanistan fell here in helmand trying to provide security. the tpafrplers plead with police. what else should they grow? failure to provide markets for alternative crops undermine whatever else british troops did here. >> it doesn't take long to destroy a field of poppies. they're not very tall. only a few flowers. in a couple of months, these would be dried seed pops, the source of opium. >> the head of narcotics destroys only a small proportion. almost every day he has to fight the taliban to reach the p
. >>> on saturday, afghan voters will choose a successor to that made karzai. voting will be particularly difficult in helmand province. up to a third of polling stations might be closed because of insecurity. british troops have now withdrawn from rural areas and to just a handful of bases ahead of the end of combat operations in december. david loin presents. >> tractors rip up poppies in an attempt to cut the raw material for heroin. poppy production went up to a record high...
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and afghanistan, i'm concerned because of a monster that we've created, karzai, and his and his actions which are certainly incoherent, i'm afraid we're going to pull out and not do the things that have been so strongly recommended by the pentagon and others. and in china, in the seneca cues we have a situation where we have unresolved disputes, we have skirmishes that occurring. these are the kind of things that create world wars. and yet our allies are concerned about where our support is, japan is continuing to move ahead with ways to create their own abilities to defend themselves. so mr. chairman -- mr. secretary, excuse me, i have a lot of questions. and my sense is that the administration in so many ways through rhetoric, and persuasion seems to think that people like the leaders of russia and china and other places respond to nice rhetoric. i don't think that's the case. i'm concerned about our policy and i hope today due to questioning many have, including me, i hope you will lay out very clearly what our policies are in these areas. mr. chairman i thank you for calling the hea
and afghanistan, i'm concerned because of a monster that we've created, karzai, and his and his actions which are certainly incoherent, i'm afraid we're going to pull out and not do the things that have been so strongly recommended by the pentagon and others. and in china, in the seneca cues we have a situation where we have unresolved disputes, we have skirmishes that occurring. these are the kind of things that create world wars. and yet our allies are concerned about where our support is,...
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role of departing coalition forces their death tolls are going up they're much higher president hamid karzai administration recently released the total number of afghan security forces deaths during this war they are quadruple the number of coalition forces deaths with thirteen thousand seven hundred twenty nine troops having died and another sixteen thousand five hundred being report. as injured many of them were killed by taliban fighters including twenty one during a single raid in february which was the single deadliest attack in recent memory there of a number of accidental killings by coalition forces as well in march a nato airstrike resulted in the deaths of five afghan soldiers in the eastern logar province when a bomb hit a military checkpoint eight others were also injured in that incident now is something else to keep in mind is that the coalition and afghan forces are not alone in this war there are also a number of military contractors that are working in the country the total death count for military contractors is much more difficult to come by but we do know that at least tw
role of departing coalition forces their death tolls are going up they're much higher president hamid karzai administration recently released the total number of afghan security forces deaths during this war they are quadruple the number of coalition forces deaths with thirteen thousand seven hundred twenty nine troops having died and another sixteen thousand five hundred being report. as injured many of them were killed by taliban fighters including twenty one during a single raid in february...
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merkel, putin, karzai, all of the photos that he based the paintings off of were literally the first selections. >> it's just this bizarre thing about this person, first picture up, first picture chosen, nothing personal in the pictures. it's just taking the ease way out, acting like this is a portrait of a fellow world leader, when, really, it's just this kid trying to make good, probably, just trying to make it seem like he was a likable doofus, easygoing guy. but i think it shows anything but that. again, i liked the early work, but this, honestly, shows -- just imagine, had bush painted the people that were really around him. this work speaks volumes with what he did not paint. >> let me dive in on that. that is sort of the negative space of this entire historical painting here. these are not pictures of people at abu ghraib or dick cheney and condoleezza rice. he's positioning himself, as you said, either at the most personal or at the diplomatic level with foreign leaders. we're not seeing any sort of focus on other worst parts of his legacy. >> what he's not painting is speaki
merkel, putin, karzai, all of the photos that he based the paintings off of were literally the first selections. >> it's just this bizarre thing about this person, first picture up, first picture chosen, nothing personal in the pictures. it's just taking the ease way out, acting like this is a portrait of a fellow world leader, when, really, it's just this kid trying to make good, probably, just trying to make it seem like he was a likable doofus, easygoing guy. but i think it shows...
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the current president hamid karzai was afghanistan's first democratically elected leader. the taliban has carried out several high profile attacks in the run off to election. they've been targetting polling centres, the election commission and candidates. the vote on april 5th, and the results will be announced later this month. >> a supreme court ruling could affect elections in this country for years to come. the high court voted on campaign limits. conservatives say the ruling is a one for free speech, but liberals say it will remove ordinary minister from the process. adam may looks at impacts. >> it's a familiar scene during every election season. candidate on the trail chasing votes, and always looking for donors to help pay for it all. now the way candidates raise money is about to change dramatically. sense the 1970s don augustses to individual -- donations to individual candidates have been subject to rules and limits. today's decision rolls back a lot of restrictions. until now, the overall cap on don't eightses to poll -- donations was $123,000 per election cycl
the current president hamid karzai was afghanistan's first democratically elected leader. the taliban has carried out several high profile attacks in the run off to election. they've been targetting polling centres, the election commission and candidates. the vote on april 5th, and the results will be announced later this month. >> a supreme court ruling could affect elections in this country for years to come. the high court voted on campaign limits. conservatives say the ruling is a one...
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because president karzai has not signed the b.s.a., the president has not made his decisions what the u.s. troop presence will look like after this year and i think the u.n. is waiting to understand that better. we've seen just with the monstrous taliban attacks that occurred in the last few weeks in addition to all those that preceded those attacks just how precarious the security is, particularly for civilians who are trying to aid the afghan population. and so that is a challenge. thank you. >> welcome. let me ask you. we talked about the fact we spend a lot of money on the u.n. and over the years there's been an awful lot of effort in congress to bring about reforms to the u.n. and one of the -- one of the kind of glaring dysfunctions of the u.n. is the u.n. security council because that's supposed to bring peace and security on an international basis but it doesn't seem to always work that way. if you look at syria, the efforts to end the conflict there, i think there have been at least three times where china and russia has vetoed efforts to do that. and so you wonder how it can
because president karzai has not signed the b.s.a., the president has not made his decisions what the u.s. troop presence will look like after this year and i think the u.n. is waiting to understand that better. we've seen just with the monstrous taliban attacks that occurred in the last few weeks in addition to all those that preceded those attacks just how precarious the security is, particularly for civilians who are trying to aid the afghan population. and so that is a challenge. thank you....
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and afghanistan, i'm concerned because of a monster that we've created, karzai, and his and his actions which are certainly incoherent, i'm afraid we're going to pull out and not do the things that have been so strongly recommended by the pentagon and others. and in china, in the seneca cues we have a situation where we have unresolved disputes, we have skirmishes that occurring. these are the kind of things that create world wars. and yet our allies are concerned about where our support is, japan is continuing to move ahead with ways to create their own abilities to defend themselves. so mr. chairman -- mr. secretary, excuse me, i have a lot of questions. and my sense is that the administration in so many ways through rhetoric, and persuasion seems to think that people like the leaders of russia and china and other places respond to nice rhetoric. i don't think that's the case. i'm concerned about our policy and i hope today due to questioning many have, including me, i hope you will lay out very clearly what our policies are in these areas. mr. chairman i thank you for calling the hea
and afghanistan, i'm concerned because of a monster that we've created, karzai, and his and his actions which are certainly incoherent, i'm afraid we're going to pull out and not do the things that have been so strongly recommended by the pentagon and others. and in china, in the seneca cues we have a situation where we have unresolved disputes, we have skirmishes that occurring. these are the kind of things that create world wars. and yet our allies are concerned about where our support is,...
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i give great credit to president karzai who employed the commission who helped make this happen, all the people invested in this. so it's -- their army helped provide the security. we helped with the planning and laid out some thoughts about it. they helped execute it. it's very important. it's a critical step forward. there will be challenges ahead. i don't want anybody to suggest this smooths the way completely at all. there are big challenges. this is important. on the special immigrant visas, we have improved the processing times. we expanded the outreach to current and former employees who may be eligible. we issued more special immigrant visas in afghanistan and in iraq, incidentally, than any time in any previous year since october of last year more than 2,000 afghans, interpreters, their family members, have received special immigrant visas. there are over 700 principal applicants and 1,300 family members. in the first five months of this year we issued more sivs in afghans to their dependents than all of last year. i think there is a lot of work being done even as we are mai
i give great credit to president karzai who employed the commission who helped make this happen, all the people invested in this. so it's -- their army helped provide the security. we helped with the planning and laid out some thoughts about it. they helped execute it. it's very important. it's a critical step forward. there will be challenges ahead. i don't want anybody to suggest this smooths the way completely at all. there are big challenges. this is important. on the special immigrant...
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because president karzai has not signed the bsa, the president has not made his decisions about what the u.s. troop presence is going to look like after this year, and i think the u.n. is waiting to understand that better. we've seen just with the monstrous taliban attacks that have occurred in the last few weeks mission to all those that preceded those attacks just how precarious the security is, particularly for civilians who are trying to aid the afghan p population. and so that is a challenge. thank you. >> chairman, welcome. and let me ask you, we talk about the fact that we spent a lot of money on theup, and over the years there's been an awful lot of efforts in congress to bring about reforms to the u.n. and one of the kind of glaring dysfunctions of the u.n. is the u.n. security council. because that's supposed to bring peace and security on an international basis. but it doesn't seem to always work that way. if you look at syria, the efforts to end the conflict there, i think there have been at least three times where china and russia have vetoed efforts to do that. so you w
because president karzai has not signed the bsa, the president has not made his decisions about what the u.s. troop presence is going to look like after this year, and i think the u.n. is waiting to understand that better. we've seen just with the monstrous taliban attacks that have occurred in the last few weeks mission to all those that preceded those attacks just how precarious the security is, particularly for civilians who are trying to aid the afghan p population. and so that is a...
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hamid karzai is not run, but his candidate is trailing. >> a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near the solomon islands, triggering a tsunami alert which was cancel. there were no report of damage and the solomon islands sits on the ring of fire, an area prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. the area is reeling from flash floods that killed 28. and that was from the formationful cyclone ida which moved through australia on friday. >> it's been a violent day in iraq. 10 were killed in a car bomb, 12 injured. the violence is having a huge impact on the most vulnerable, and that is the children. 4 4.5 million kids are orphans. >> this is no ordinary school. every child here is an orphan. in iraq you are an orphan if your father has been killed. in many cases both parents died as a result of violence. they live with other relatives who often cannot afford to educate and look after them. the schools are tucked away. a neighbourhood that has seen much violence since the occupation by americans in 2006. >> today the children are grateful for the opportunity to learn. >> translation: my
hamid karzai is not run, but his candidate is trailing. >> a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near the solomon islands, triggering a tsunami alert which was cancel. there were no report of damage and the solomon islands sits on the ring of fire, an area prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. the area is reeling from flash floods that killed 28. and that was from the formationful cyclone ida which moved through australia on friday. >> it's been a violent day in iraq. 10 were...
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ballots are being counted in afghanistan to determine who will succeed president hamid karzai. millions turned out saturday defying threats from the taliban. nearly two dozen people were killed in election day violence. 400,000 troops were deployed to keep the polls safe. it could take six weeks for results to come in from across afghanistan. ashraf gani and abdullah abdullah appeared to be front runners. >>> remembering the victims of the washington state mud slide. ♪ >> several hundred people filled the community center saturday to pay tribute to 69-year-old limiteda mcpherson, the retired librarian and her husband were sitting in their rekleiners reading the newspaper when the mud slide hit. her husband survived the disaster. funerals for two others were held on saturday. the official death told for the mud slide is now 30, with 13 people still missing. president obama plans to take part in a memorial at fort hood. the president and first lady will visit the texas military post on wednesday three soldiers were shot and killed last wednesday. the obama were already schedule
ballots are being counted in afghanistan to determine who will succeed president hamid karzai. millions turned out saturday defying threats from the taliban. nearly two dozen people were killed in election day violence. 400,000 troops were deployed to keep the polls safe. it could take six weeks for results to come in from across afghanistan. ashraf gani and abdullah abdullah appeared to be front runners. >>> remembering the victims of the washington state mud slide. ♪ >>...